An hour through my Networking lecture...

Lecturer A: An Internet
Protocol (IP) address is a numerical identification (logical address) that
is assigned to devices participating in a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol
for communication between its nodes...
*Help Desk phone rings*
*Lecturer stops and stares at the phone in shock for 30 seconds*
Lecturer A: What happened?!
*moves towards the phone and picks it up*
Lecturer A: Hello?

LMAO! Lecturers are funny people...

...And on to my Programming lecture.

Lecturer B: I'm going to show you how to debug your code using Eclipse...
*Clicks debug button*
A minute passed by and nothing happens...
*Clicks icon again*
Lecturer B: It should work...
Another minuted passed by...
Lecturer B: ...Let's just resume with the lecture. Yeah, my laptop's dodgy. Believe it or not, this laptop costs me five grand! Well, not much to worry about, it's the uni's money anyways.
Student C: And that means they're tax payers money...
Lecturer B: Well yeah, that's true. So I guess part of it is my own money
Student C: And ours!

So there goes our tax money...

Confessions,
You know you love to hear them.
I just wish you knew how I feel.
But then again, I hope you don't.

The moment I began my life here,
I viewed life as sliding doors.
Yours wide open and full of life,
mine, shut as I admire you from a far.

I would have opened my door,
Yes, I would, for you.
But no matter how much I tried,
my heart was chained,
my conscience told me not to.

This cold winter day,
We meet again.
My door is still shut,
But yours have changed.
Still filled with life,
yours has been shut.
And unlike mine,
warmth filled your side.

I could just walk away,
give up the hopes I had on us,
stop watching you from the other end.
But then again, I don't want to lose this memory,
this confession, my hushed affection.

*MyRa*

A list of things that I need to do:

♠ Programming
Assignment 1A (Due 8th August)
♠ Software Engineering
Assignment 1 (Due 15th August)
♠ Web Programming Assignment 1
(Due 18th August)

Yes, I should be studying now
instead of blogging here but I just need to some good news with all of
you...Hui Shan is coming over to Melbourne for a visit =D I really
can't wait to hang-out with her. At least I hope I can with all these
assignments in my way. Oh, I seriously got to get them done before she
comes over!

My uni is going to have its Open Day on
the 10th of August. It will be great if I can volunteer to help out in
that event but I'll have to attend my cousin's wedding on that day.
Well, not that I dread going to her wedding but RMIT means a lot to
me...lol! Yeah, you can call me preppy for that:-p

I had my Software Engineering lecture today and the lecturer was discussing about gathering requirements from a client and how to design Use Case diagrams.  The image above is something I took from the lecture notes on how people interpret requirements differently. Just thought of sharing this amusing comic strip. Click on the image to enlarge it =)

*MyRa*

It's been a week since my new semester has begun. I'm still trying to used to my awkward timetable and those two-hour long lectures we never had during our first semester. I had two of them yesterday (First lecture was on Networking and the second lecture was on programming). I was really interested in getting to know more about these topics especially topics on Networking. That is, not until I was halfway through the lecture:

1. The guy next to me was snoring away and it was hard not getting influenced by his sleepiness...LOL!

2. Two guys in front of me were fiddling away on their laptop, watching explicit videos. Well, not that I'm interested in watching those but you can't help catching a glimpse on that, can you? I have to say, though, watching porn in the lecture hall? That's just retarded! They could just do it in private or something...

3. They turned on the air-conditioner even though it was already freezing cold! They should really turn on the heater, not that!

But yeah, despite all these...I'm just glad that I got through those lectures well. I'll just need to read ahead for next week's topics and start attempting on my assignments (I've received three already T.T).

And yes, yesterday too, I turned 19...I seriously feel old now. But to all my friends out there, thanks a lot for the birthday wishes. They meant a lot to me ^_^

*MyRa*

A new semester, a new beginning...

But it's great to meet many old and new faces in tutorials and lecture halls =)

And yes, a whole new semester means that there are new exam hurdles and assignments. I just received my first assignment for the semester yesterday. Well, it's nothing much to complain about now after all those assignments I had been through during the previous semester.

//Edit: Had my first Programming 2 tutorial just now. After waiting for about 3 hours (I had a 3 hour gap before the tutorial) in the library, my tutor came in and made an introduction about this course we are taking this semester. The tutorial was meant to last for an hour but it ended after 15 minutes it began. My tutor is definitely one rich guy, earning $90 per hour even if he taught us for just 15 minutes...Tsk-tsk.

I got a chance to spend time with my family during the holidays.
I did well in my previous semester exams.
I hung-out with my sis and watched The Dark Knight (Honestly, a really good film).
I got to be with Jon almost everyday.
Yet, here I am now thinking that I could have done something more during the break...
...Sigh, I hate it when my world turns grey for no apparent reason!

Searching for your heart
This windy and stormy night
I am left unsure.

Apologies for not blogging sooner. Had been enjoying my holidays to the fullest ever since my exam ended. So that leaves approximately a week before I receive my results  Yeah, I'm still trying to console myself that I haven't done the exam terribly but it keeps occurring to me that since I haven't received an email for a supplementary exam (which some of my friends have...), it is either I pass the course or fail it entirely (because supplementary exams are for those who score close to the passing mark for a course). Right, maybe I should have more confidence in myself. Even my dad said so, when I told him about my latest assignment marks; for weeks I had been panicking and thinking that I have not reached the hurdle requirements for that subject.

"Even too much sunshine can be devastating, while only with rain can growth occur.
Accept both as part of the growing process in the garden of life."
Donald S. Neviaser, from The Inner View

Based on my perspective, I think I have summon too much rain in my life causing my roots of foundation to loosen day by day. I haven't been thinking why I'm blogging about this now but I guess my subconscious mind wants me to heed for a positive tomorrow, where tranquility is the answer to my sleep and that I do not wake up the following day wishing that the earth would consume me little by little until there isn't anything left for me anymore.